Guild Wars 2

LelouchViBritannia.3607:

Mogar.9216:

Bsgapollo.5364:

LelouchViBritannia.3607:

reikken.4961:

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I mostly take vitality instead. my defense is for burst resistance, not for sustain

Toughness gives burst resistance. Vitality gives sustain resistance.

Wrong, he was right.
Vitality is meant for surviving a single huge burst. toughness is for sustain over duration.

Toughness reduces base damage per attack. Most burst class burst you with crit damage . Crit damage is a X of the base damage. For example a thief who back stabs you with 100% crit chance and 100% crit damage mod would do about base * 2.5 damage. By reducing the base damage you reduce the size of that burst lot since toughness is factored in before crit damage X is applied . So toughness is indeed better for dealing with bursts.

This.

If you have 20k health but only 900 toughness a thief will burst you 100% to 0% in 2 seconds.
If you have 15k health but 1500 toughness the thief will need much longer to burst you giving you time to react.

Perfectly said. It would seem that the cross variations of Vit,tuff and Healing power are in the ranges for a DnD ele

16,000 to 19,000 Hit point (Without food and buffs)
1450 to 1750 tuffness
500 to 800 Healing power

I think these would be different for SnD though

hihey.1075:

Healing power on staff eles is completely wasted as most of the healing is provided by the blast finishers which are based on the person using the blast to determine the healing amount.
Healing power is only relevant to D/D eles using the Signet, and even then they should not exceed 400HP

Tested 400, 700, 1150 Healing power on classic DnD.

Found 650 to 800 to be a nice sweet spot.

Eles weakest point is receiving Burst damage from 2 well played burst pricks. Even LF out, A4 , A3 and you are still going to face trouble.

I have never seen a DnF or SnF ele in the last 3 months.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

My vote would be 100% duration increase and the Boons applied getting 100% increase, this and remove the sharing aspect, but hey i am greedy ^^

lol new ElE grandmaster trait

Selfish Powerful Aura
-Remove all Boons from friendlies in radius of 360 units and transfer them to the player
-Get instantly booted from group

Smokee.1754:

Fuzzion.2504:

Come to JQ where we solve all your problems

I got kitten mesmers that cant place a ducking veil. Can you solve that if I transfer?

They need training at the church of jedsus for that.

Being a grandmaster trait , powerful aura is in a sad state. Not only must its radius be increased, but so must the duration. 2s wouldnt be over the top for a grandmaster trait. Also 360 range is way too low.

Advent.6193:

1514 toughness, 2434 armor. I cover the gaps in my defense with consumables, generally.
I used to run with 2700 armor, but it honestly seemed to keep me alive the same amount of time, but with less ability to actively nuke the other guy(s).

I was getting the same returns. I have runned 2000 and 1500 , and i cant tell the difference too much. Maybe thats why daphoenix said 1600 to 1700 is acceptable

Come to JQ where we solve all your problems

I a m around 1634 and am happy.

Writetyper.1985:

How many dominators in total does that make now? Or have we lost count by now. I’m a lil out of the loop sorry

Given there are 3.2 million players. Must be something like 1,376

Updated with now a slimmer version

-Fuzz

Did u mean PvE roaming build?

Just copy the classic dnd build and modify from there on.
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5g.h4.8.5g.h19.d19.0.d19|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.5j.71g.1c.71g.5j.b1m.1c.b1m.0.0.0.0.0.0|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u15b.u28b|15.1|1n.1u.25.1v.29|e

Anyone that thinks playing an ele is easy, should not play an ele. Roll an engie

Eles are very hard to play in WvW but if you master them, they are very fun.

Also you play an ele because you know it takes twice the skill and effort to take down an engie meaning you are twice the player

Follow these key combos. First press ALT then press F4 repeatedly. Then take a hammer and aim at screen to have said combo.

But seriously, no, dont do that. Just roll an engineer and go have fun playing an op class

Most will just be bunker build Staff eles who know where to stand, where to put static field, listen well, water fields, fire fields, cast E4 and learn how not to die.

But the real ele is semi bunker, DnD, and bombs the static field, removing condi and AOE boons all and with spare time go harass the backline.

So in any GvG there are 4 main classes needed.

The Guardian, The Ele,The Warrior and the Necro.

But if you could pick only 3, it would be ele,guardian and warrior.

By JQ standards, BG has just spent a small time in tier 1. So welcome BG, dont forget to leave your bags on the way out

I would love a WXP ability worth a 120 ranks to reduce condi duration by 25% with each stack giving 5%. Right now condi damage is way out of proportion.

And allow laurels to buy ascended armour and weapons.

A mesmer complaining about a warrior. Did i read that right?

You need to have good timing on rotations as well and you will also need to dodge consistently like a rabbit on steroids. All this while playing with combo fields.

You want an easy mode kill everything toon go play an engie or warrior, otherwise skip the DnD ele.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Well , I have 2 necros , guardian , thief , mesmer , engineer , ranger and warrior .
It’s time to level an elementalist , I tried it in 2012 ( thought that it’s weaker than the others ).
I hope that it got buffed since then.

What do you think about my build ? Will d\d with PVT gear be great ?

Things have changed. Eles are not as deadly as 2012 eles. No one wears full PVT gear nowadays.

most of us have moved to www.gw2wvw.net

very likely

Our community Site would like your input

http://www.gw2wvw.net/content/are-you-you-looking-forward-season-2-leagues

Update to new chart

- Added 2nd place % and 2nd place graph as per a request.

Thank you crimson for the suggestion. /hugs

Please vote your view on season 2 at

http://www.gw2wvw.net/polls

Updated

I think condi damage needs a look first before we look at immunity timers.

MartyPartys.9187:

mahariel.4981:

Welcome back. RG got bored of Camelot Unchained or something?

Camelot Unchained is not released yet.

Elder Scrolls Online is garbage from what i have seen and heard.

Camelot unchained is atleast 2 years from an actual playable state. Alpha is supposedly mid this year. Also do you really want to trust mark jacobs again after he sold out his fans for a big fat check?

Condi spamming engies are quite OP, 1v1,3v3 are a pain, unless you are talking about zerg warfare.

Necros 1v1 arent fun but 3v3 are easy to kill. Thieves, well i think they arent as great a problem.

We do have some balance issues with Condi that needs to be seriously looked at.

Yes you can fight with Exotic.

But when you add (Food)(Nourishment)(World Rank 230) + (Ascended everything) = a rough 20% benefit over others.

Ascended alone gives 11.78956% Boost over Exotic stats.

ThiBash.5634:

Fuzzion.2504:

Boon duration gear only if u are going the classic dnd route. Otherwise, the conversation is a waste of time.

I see. So boosting your party heals or extending your might durations isn’t useful?

Because the DnD ele is a frontliner attacker, having boon duration on him , combined with powerful aura and grp condi removal are all at max 360 radius. Staff eles serve different purposes and dont really neeed that high of boon duration gear.

Just copy this one
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5g.h4.8.5g.h19.d19.0.d19|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.5j.71g.1c.71g.5j.b1m.1c.b1m.0.0.0.0.0.0|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u15b.u28b|15.1|1n.1u.25.1v.29|e

Boon duration gear only if u are going the classic dnd route. Otherwise, the conversation is a waste of time.

new build. For Advanced DnD players only.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|8.5g.h4.8.5g.h19.d19.0.d19|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.71h.1c.71h.5j.71g.1c.71g.5j.b1m.1c.b1m.0.0.0.0.0.0|211.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.211.d1b.311.d1b.3v.d1b|0.a1.0.u15b.u28b|15.1|1n.1u.25.1v.29|e

Updated. Enjoy week 32

I have spoken with Anet and have confirmed that they are closing these sub-forums soon. They wouldnt go into the specifics. Now when i try to read the PM, the inbox msg sent from her is gone

skullmount.1758:

Fuzzion.2504:

Matchup threads being deleted very soon.

Fill the wvw discussion with all the matchup threads

We already have a community site. Free from Anets control.

Matchup threads being deleted very soon.

The site is a success. Over 15,000 views on posts, 300+ posts, and 400+ members from most of the famous guilds. GvG threads, NA matchup threads, EU matchup threads,basically anything WvW is there. All this in less than a week

/Salute Vyx on a job well done. Mate, the community appreciates your hard work.

Goodbye matchup forums. It was fun.

jojojoon.8607:

I personally think it’s a big mistake to close the sub forum down. Without seeing players’s names and communicating with opposing players in-game via chat (except for workarounds), it’s difficult to create server, guild, and player rivalries. The wvw sub-forums some what allows this with the smack talk. Now, even with this tool removed, I predict a even greater decline in wvw participation in the next few months.

Everyone knows the rewards in wvw sucks compare to pve. The matches are stale since it’s the same server match up over and over. New content updates to wvw is always getting pushed back in favor of pve content updates. For most players, the fight experience and the sense of rivalry are what that keep players doing wvw every night. But now with this removed, why would we do wvw when it doesn’t even matter what guilds or server we’re fighting against. At least before, you see a server/guild talk smack on the forum, you want to log in to destroy them that night.

Multiple people have said they read the sub-forums at work to follow the matchup. This is something that anet should be want all players to do since it means the players are interested in the matchup. Players disinterest in the matchup leads to them not participating in wvw. Is this anet’s goal with their decision to close down the wvw sub-forums?

All the major forum players and their guilds have posted their matchups at gw2wvw.net . And this was within a short span of 3 days. In a few days i expect things to even grow. Im just happy everyone is at one same place.

Radioactive.1248:

I would be a great moderator!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol sure.

Updated. Some minor rank swings.

Note that new matchup threads are now as per Anets request at

www.gw2wvw.net

In the last 6, the sites numbers have doubled and the number of post quadrupled.

Be Free. Exit the Matrix.

With the closure of this site Please note your matchup thread is now at

http://www.gw2wvw.net/node/26

SonofNoob.3102:

I heard pot will be registering over there.

Ascii as well.

Note that your matchup is now here

http://www.gw2wvw.net/node/27

titanlectro.5029:

If gw2wvw.net is going to be completely unmoderated, then no thank you.

It is moderated. But limited to things like racism, nude pics, etc, you know, the general things that are punches below the belt.

New Matchup-thread is here

http://www.gw2wvw.net/node/25

Fannwong, please update your thread notes.